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Helen & Rita Lurie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$691k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$575kInternational$50kArts & Culture$38kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$250,000
NYU MEDICAL SCHOOL$141,200
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$94,500
HIASINC$64,700
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY$50,000
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES$50,000
DIRECT RELIEF FOR UKRAINE$25,000
UJA ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND$10,500
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $24k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $24k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $20k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $15k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $15k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $15k → 15%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $36k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $36k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $30k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $18k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 14 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$4.9M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-13%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $614k · revenue +39%
  • MN
    METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +142%
  • SC
    SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of Judaism Foundation
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
6
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
7
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
8
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
9
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
11
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
12
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Communal Fund and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE — $2,064,650 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGENYU MEDICAL SCHOOL — $803,600 · OtherNYU MEDICAL SCHOOLHIASINC — $449,100 · OtherHIASINC+4 more — $158,500 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $613,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $238,500 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN …SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $224,000 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMM…JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $112,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUN…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $180,500 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $38,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,475,850Philanthropy$633,500Human Services$574,500Education$200,500Health$50,000Arts & Culture$38,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $613,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $238,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $224,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $180,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $112,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $38,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY
  • Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Helen & Rita Lurie Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Helen & Rita Lurie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helen & Rita Lurie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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